A few photo tips:Photos are 2 dimensional representations of 3 dimensional spaces.

Downtown commercial space would probably go up and maybe the owners of the few high rise apartments and lofts could raise rents.

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They then leased out the other spaces.  

Example, we located a commercial property that could be purchased for 10 thousand the property is zoned mixed use it has 1 existing apartment that needs full rehab and could allow up to 4 apartments in the entire building and a large retail space.

I'm not taking that as a bias - the overall theme of your post (finding a real estate agent that you can work with, etc) for the future to come is pretty much what I assumed.  

Then we will build a 10x10 room downstairs as well so turn it into a 3bed, 2bath place and add about 250 sq ft of space total. 

Do you care more about space or cool location?

There's also companies that build "empty" towers and lease out tower space to a variety of other services (public safety, WISP, industry, etc.).